The Wikimedia Board of Trustees are working towards developing guiding principles for how to raise and distribute funds to best benefit the Wikimedia movement. Those who have been following the several Fundraising and Funds Dissemination conversations are familiar with this, but if you haven't been following those conversations, don't worry. This is a very specific subtask to which I hope you'll be able to contribute.

This is part of a planned survey intended to help figure out what resources (requiring funding) Wikimedians want and need, and at what priority. It's not intended to describe the sum of all Wikimedia Foundation programs -- just resources individual contributors or Wikimedia-affiliated organizations like chapters might ask for. So, if you think "someone else should do X" (e.g. keep the Wikimedia sites running), it shouldn't be in the list below. But if you think "I might apply for funding/support for X", it should be in the list.

Please understand that the survey is not the final point of the conversation; it's really a launching point. The information received through this survey will be made public for everyone. Its purpose is to be useful information for us as we develop our thinking about the kinds of funding necessary for the Wikimedia movement to do its work, and how to best ensure everyone gets the money they need.

Funding for individuals to devote time to short-term community initiatives that can't be done on a volunteer basis (e.g., research project, staging of competition)

Permission to use Wikipedia/Wikimedia logos for co-operations/initiatives/events

Funding to conduct original research where appropriate (Wikinews interviews, oral histories, etc.)

Access to the sitenotice (e.g., for research or recruitment purposes)

Support for impoverished long-term contributors

Other (Please add here any other additional types of resources you think would support your work, or the work of other community members) ***let's make this a large free-text box, not a small one. Also, we need to add a notation about people ideally using Google Translate to machine-translate their words into English, if possible***